Word Origin & History

erotic 1620s (implied in erotical), from Fr. érotique, from Gk. erotikos, from eros (gen. erotos) "sexual love" (see Eros). Eroticize is from 1914. Erotomaniac "one driven mad by passionate love" (sometimes also used in the sense of "nymphomaniac") is from 1858.

Example Sentences for erotic

What a sight for a young man of fifteen like me, whom the old man admitted as the only and silent witness of these erotic scenes!

Minne came to have a bad meaning and was used for erotic passion.

In the same year Punch suggests a Bill should be promoted for "the better behaviour of the erotic and learned lord,"

The erotic element has been refined and suppressed, or at least disavowed.

One might call Cecily a stoical amorist, an erotic philosopher.

The discharge may or may not be accompanied with an erotic dream.

But he has buried most of his erotic woes, such as they were, in a dead language.

A funny, stricken look replaced the erotic face she had made at me.

Strike out the erotic element from specifically modern literature, and how insignificant the remainder would appear!

Like any creative experience, the erotic experience is one of expression.